I don't remember every playing Zelda...  although I know that little screen for some reason.
It does look great! I think it's quite fitting.   Love the back cover too. I couldn't see your blurb... Blurbs fascinate me atm.  I'm trying to figure them out -- how to write one.

Lee went with Createspace too. so they are pretty good eh?


Good luck with it!  tell me when it's published.

Yes, over the winter I tested them by creating an anthology of shorter work I've written over the course of the last decade.  I was very pleased with the quality I got back, and it was a thrill seeing something I had written in book form for the first time.

The actual image is much bigger, but photobucket resized it on its own.  The blurb is basically just what I wrote for the query letter I posted with the novel.

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Parody and satire is protected by law.  As long as I don't use the Zelda logo or anything copyright protected by Nintendo, it will be fine.  I'm even covered on the rocks and waterfall at the bottom, as that's a photo from my personal collection.

And since pink is the color of the original image background, I used the same due to recognizability.  It wouldn't be much of a parody if I used blue or something.  And it will stand out on people's personal shelves (as well as bookstore shelves, should I get any independent stores interested in stocking it).  Plus pink and black are the colors of one of my favorite professional wrestlers, Bret "Hitman" Hart.

The cover was created in Photoshop using a template from CreateSpace.  Yes, I can do okay photoshopping, plus compose rudimentary music and I used to be a video editor.  I'm blessed with a very quick learning curve.

And I didn't think of it until recently, but this cover is even more apropos for my first novel, since my first exposure to the fantasy genre was through this game when I was seven years old.  And it was Dragon Warrior a couple of years later that got me hooked on the genre.  I didn't even know there was such a thing as fantasy literature until years afterward.

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If you have a facebook profile, please click "like" on my fan page.  I can give it is own unique URL once it gets 25 fans, and then I'll be able to advertise it in my book.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nichol … 1425715842

Nicholas Andrews wrote:

If you have a facebook profile, please click "like" on my fan page.  I can give it is own unique URL once it gets 25 fans, and then I'll be able to advertise it in my book.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nichol … 1425715842

Okay, done

Just got the second proof, with all my minor issues fixed.  Looks great.  Once I decide on a release date, I'll post it here.

August 2 is the release date!

OMG!!!  it's so GOOD. Love it!
Really well done.

I miss Erith!!    *cry*   
when will she come back??!!!



Congrats again Nicholas!!

I should also mention that this gorgeous image that Erith made, like my cover, is also a parody. For comparison:

http://www.impawards.com/1985/posters/goonies.jpg

Lou: I don't know. She seemed unsure herself.

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Nicholas Andrews wrote:

She already posted it on one of the other forums, but here is the link to the interview I did for Jeanne Bannon's blog recently:

http://beyondwordsblog.blogspot.com/201 … drews.html

Big thanks to Jeanne for hosting me.

My pleasure Nicholas. Been getting a lot of great feedback on your interview

Another interview, this time at sellingbooks.com:

http://www.sellingbooks.com/nicholas-an … ournament/

Nicholas Andrews wrote:

Thanks to HavePenWillScribble for leaving a review on the Amazon page.

No worries. I read it, liked it, commented. That's how 'The Hack' rolls. Keep working.